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>It's something children do > on their own, anyway. When I was at school, how many pop songs did I know by heart? > How many times did my friends and I run through the entire script of "Monty > Python and the Holy Grail" by heart? We must have been quite a boring lot, but to > us it was fun because nobody had told us to do it. To learn a few poems as well > would not have been unnatural. > Kari There's something in that. School has the potential to making almost anything dull. I was going to class one morning and a group of juniors were waiting outside the neighbouring room. Then there was announcement that they had to go somewhere else as nurse so-and-so was going to talk to them. "Not sex _again_!" they moaned. best Randolph Healy PS I'm for learning poems by heart.